R. Feenstra

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The Next Generation of the Penn World Table
We describe the theory and practice of real GDP comparisons across countries and over time. Effective with version 8, the Penn World Table (PWT) will be taken over by the University of California,…
New Product Varieties and the Measurement of International Prices
The high income elasticity of demand often estimated for U.S. imports may be a spurious result of omitting new product varieties from the import price indexes. The purpose of this paper is to…
Globalization, Outsourcing, and Wage Inequality
There is considerable debate over whether international trade has contributed to the declining economic fortunes of less skilled workers. One issue that has become lost in the current discussion is…
Advanced international trade : theory and evidence
Trade is a cornerstone concept in economics worldwide. This updated second edition of the essential graduate textbook in international trade brings readers to the forefront of knowledge in the field…
Foreign Investment, Outsourcing and Relative Wages
In this paper we examine the reduction in the relative employment and wages of unskilled workers in the U.S. during the 1980's. We argue that a contributing factor to this decline was rising imports…
Integration of Trade and Disintegration of Production in the Global Economy
The last few decades have seen a spectacular integration of the global economy through trade. The rising integration of world markets has brought with it a disintegration of the production process,…
World Trade Flows: 1962-2000
We document a set of bilateral trade data by commodity for 1962-2000, which is available from www.nber.org/data (International Trade Data, NBER-UN world trade data). Users must agree not to resell or…
The Impact of Outsourcing and High-Technology Capital on Wages: Estimates For the United States, 1979–1990
We estimate the relative influence of trade versus technology on wages in a "large-country" setting, where technological change affects product prices. Trade is measured by the foreign outsourcing of…
Foreign Direct Investment and Relative Wages: Evidence from Mexico&Apos;S Maquiladoras
Border Effects and the Gravity Equation: Consistent Methods for Estimation
The CES monopolistic competition model is an especially convenient way to derive the gravity equation, especially when we allow for transport costs and other trade barriers. In that case, we need to…
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